Roshan D'Souza, PhD

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Dr. Roshan D'Souza is a staff scientist at the Rockville Campus of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Dr. D'Souza has extensive experience in antimicrobial resistance, bacterial genetics, next-generation sequencing, and molecular biology. His research is focused on tackling the threat of antimicrobial resistance from multi-drug resistance (MDR) pathogens. Prior to JCVI, he worked as a research assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea. Dr. D'Souza has constructed panel strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter spp. expressing different resistance phenotypes, which are currently being used in the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate the efficacy of novel antimicrobial drugs. In addition, he has also identified novel resistance pathway in Enterobacter spp. and novel OXA-carbapenemase genes in Acinetobacter spp. He joined Dr. Derrick Fout’s team in 2018 and is currently working on bacteriophage genomes engineering and identifying novel resistance targets in MDR strains to help control the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance.

Dr. D'Souza received his MSc (2008) in Medical Biochemistry from Manipal University, India and PhD (2012) in Microbiology and Genetics from Chonbuk National University, S. Korea. In 2013, he began post-doctoral research in Dr. Dongeun Yong’s Laboratory at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.